The Buzz: A Play

By Rynne Lydia

"Success turns smart people crazy. Like smack, it’ll never be enough, only leave you gurning for more.”

Kyla was once a TV personality. Now she's the dress hanging on the arm of her celebrity popstar boyfriend. When her anti-establishment squatter brother pays her a surprise visit on th

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Bread & Roses Theatre
• Release date: May 8, 2018
• ISBN: 9781912504053

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THE BUZZ

A play by Lydia Rynne

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The Bread & Roses Theatre

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© Lydia Rynne

First published by The Bread & Roses Theatre in 2018.

Lydia Rynne has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work. All rights reserved. Requests to reproduce the text in whole or in part should be addressed to the publisher.

Cover photography: Velenzia Spearpoint

Cover model: Sassy Clyde

Design/Formatting: Tessa Hart

ISBN 978-1-912504-05-3

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Lydia Rynne

Lydia is a writer for stage and screen. A finalist in BFI/Creative England's Funny Girls scheme, Lydia penned the short film Nugget Love which was selected as a Sundance Ignite Finalist. Her one woman play Hear Me Howl premiered in London in March 2018 and went on to the Plymouth and Edinburgh fringe festivals in Summer 2018.

The Buzz was first performed at The Bread & Roses Theatre from 8th to 19th May 2018, after coming top 3 in The Bread & Roses Playwriting Award 2016/2017. It was presented with the following cast and creatives:

CAST

Kyla

Sassy Clyde

Josh

Andy Umerah

Nate

Gabriel Cagan

Anon

Hannah Duffy

CREATIVES

Director

Velenzia Spearpoint

Set & Costume Designer

Sally Hardcastle

Sound & Lighting Designer

Chuma Emembolu

Assistant Director

Gwenan Bain

Movement Director

Roman Berry

Producing Company

The Bread & Roses Theatre Company (BRTC)

Producer

Ella Gamble

Creative Producers

Rebecca Pryle & Tessa Hart

Assistant Producer

Stephanie Hartland

*Note: This script went to print before the end of rehearsals and may vary slightly from that presented on stage.

Characters

Kyla - 33 years old.

Josh - 28. Boyfriend of Kyla.

Nate - 26. Kyla’s brother.

Anon - 24. Friends with Nate.

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Early hours of the morning. The open plan kitchen-lounge of a luxury London penthouse. On a glass coffee table, there is an open laptop. The TV plays a celebrity gossip channel that we can barely make out but can be continuous throughout.

Voices off. The door to the flat swings open and KYLA and JOSH enter, KYLA mid-rant.

KYLA            - and I’m like, I get it, you’re happy, but you’ve got

a thousand other people here most of them wanting to

get on with winning slash losing their awards and a

million more people watching at home waiting for an ad

break to go fetch their shepherd’s pie out the

microwave -

Josh simultaneously scans the laptop, his phone, and glances up at the TV, while KYLA chucks her belongings aside and searches the kitchen cupboards.

KYLA            -and you know what? No-one